Some short-term Testoob targets

[orip]

Hi,

I want to move the old Trac tickets to Google Code, but right now I'm
having trouble with that.

Anyway, here are some items I'm currently targeting:

= IronPython support =
Relevant to my day job, and just plain cool. Work already started in
the trunk.

= Jython support =
Right now I don't use the JVM, but still just plain cool.
I started testing with Jython 2.5a3 and it looks very promising (even
more than IronPython), because IronPython implements the Python frame
objects well (with f_back and everything). Shouldn't be too hard, and
some test failures seem to be bugs on Jython's part - I'm sure they'll
appreciate the bug reports.

= Multi-process running with 'multiprocessing' =
Testoob's existing support for running tests in multiple processes is
not the best: with "processes_old" the sub-processes don't
communicate, with "processes_pyro" they do communicate over Pyro, but
implementing this was complex and this still occasionally fails
mysteriously.

I started playing with Python 2.6's new 'multiprocessing' module
(available as a 3rd party module for 2.4 and up) and it looks much
more promising.

Started work in a 'multiprocess' branch, already have the (failing)
system tests :-D


If any of these sounds like something you want a part of I'll be glad.
If there's any other capability that would make your day, whether or
not you feel like doing it yourself, just say so.

orip
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